BarCampDC: We Are Unintentionally Divided

BarCampDC2 was held on Oct. 18, I realize that is was also the day LifeTime aired their movie Living Proof. (I went to the screening but I will post that later). On a day that LifeTime airs a movie about a scientist testing for a breast cancer gene to attack a disease that [...]

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Digital Divide is Not Over But Overlooked

The Digital Divide discussion arose in a digital transition session at the Congressional Black Caucus week. The session was called It Takes a Village to Stay Connected in the New Digital Era.
The focus of the discussion was about the DTV coupons. These are coupons for converter boxes to assist people to transition from analog [...]

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Women Wired In to: ooVoo, Social Media, Diversity & Politics

[This was originally posted at Women in Media and News Group Blog]
Tonight is the first night of several ooVoo events with political bloggers. I will be on the session with Liza Sabater of Culture Kitchen discussing “Diversity in the Blogosphere”. Come join us in the discussion. There are several other political bloggers, you can find [...]

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Conferences and the shallow end of the gene pool

Conferences and the shallow end of the gene pool
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As Nerdettes, Geekettes, techies and other women in field this is an ongoing challenge faced. As a fellow Tech, Deanna does a good job of summing up the problem. Many of us have talked about it. It need to move to action, not commentary.

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Live Blogging NCMR 2008: Legislation 2.0 Self-Governance and Policy on the Open Internet

This is a repost of live blogging at Women in Media and News. I will do a follow up post on this issue here.
National Media Reform Conference 2008: Media Reform Begins with Me
Panelists: Andre Banks, Colorofchange.org; Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum; and Matt Stoller, OpenLeft.com
Sifry opens the segment with using the data of all earmarks [...]

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“Women Wired In” Debuts in June

Finally got around to updating the web site to include the new blog of Women Wired In. I will import my past blog posts later. The blog will continue to under go changes until I get it all up to date. This is the place I post my random rants and thoughts about the [...]

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